The Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology School of Business (KSB) is set to embark on an outreach exercise as part of its annual social responsibilities.
The school for a long time has been known for its relentless attitude towards giving back to society, within and outside the University’s environs.
The outreach program, dubbed ‘KSB Paints Kumasi Blue’, scheduled to commence in the early hours of Saturday 27th March 2021, targets the immediate surroundings around the university campus, i.e. Kotei, Ayeduase and New Site with a total of 200 participants.
The exercise which is a multifaceted one will include public education on COVID and its vaccines, a cleanup exercise and a donation exercise to the selected communities.
In an up-close with Cobby Linus Mantey, Public Relations Officer and Head of Publicity, KSBSA, he explained, ‘We have been embarking on outreach programs almost every year to engage professionals in the real-world business environment.
Unfortunately this year we can’t engage them considering the global enemy, Covid-19, this is not to say we are relenting’.
He added, ‘The executives have carefully planned this exercise in consultation with the appropriate authorities in a manner that considers the Covid-19 protocols to educate the residents of the selected communities on the novel and its vaccine, help clean up their communities and also donate cleanup tools to them’.
Adding up to the earlier submissions, Afful Stephen Junior, the Deputy PRO said, ‘We believe in practice as Business students and we do not want to go out there and preach cleanliness but roll up our sleeves get the work done, whiles we carry out our message.
Consistency we believe is key, that has triggered our decision to donate cleanup tools to them, to carry on in our absence’.
‘We are encouraging executives in the other faculties, colleges, halls and the SRC as a bigger student body to follow suit, embarking on programs of similar nature as a way to make an impact in hard times’ he concluded.
The exercise is done in consultation with the Oforikrom Municipal Assembly, several other partners and media houses, many of which are yet to be revealed.
This program promises to be very good educative and important thus we will encourage all hands on deck in attaining this common goal that is impacting lives and changing the world.
